About Episode 21:

Ensuring the accessibility of content and interactions by all learners must be a priority for online education professionals. In this episode, hosts Tom and Kelvin consider the ongoing, multi-faceted challenge of facilitating accessibility.

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• Coffee Profile: Dunkin Donuts (featured in this episode)

Content Links

• UCF’s “Parthenon” Model for Supporting Accessibility
• Journal article: “Programmatic, Systematic, Automatic: An Online Course Accessibility Support Model” (from UCF)
• UCF’s Automated Accessibility Checker (UDOIT) for the Instructure Canvas LMS
• Video: Introduction to UDOIT by UCF Developer Jacob Bates
• Screenshot of Accessibility Charts-and-Graphs Data Report (from UCF’s Executive Information System)
• UCF’s Faculty-Facing Resources for Online Accessibility
• UCF’s Office of Student Accessibility Services (SAS)
• 30 min. recording with resources: “Creating Accessible Content in the Online Course Environment“
• “Dropping the Ball on Disabilities” (from Inside Higher Ed)
• New Era for Disability Rights” (from Inside Higher Ed)
• “Do Closed Captions Help Students Learn?” (from WCET Frontiers Blog by guest author Dr. Katie Linder)
• Discussion of Michigan State University’s Web Accessibility Work within Episode 27 of Innovation Labcast (starts at 24:04)